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Celtic Shores - beautiful airs & lullabies for dreaming

Karen Ashbrook

Enchanting melodies from all seven Celtic nations – Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Galicia, and Brittany on solo hammered dulcimer

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Starry Starry–Celestial Music from the Heart

Karen Ashbrook

A Fantasia of American, Celtic, Asian and classical lullabies on solo hammered dulcimer

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KA/PO in Concert

Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts

Old & New Traditional Music from in and around Belgium (and Ireland!) on harp guitar, hammered dulcimer, accordion & wooden flute. KA/PO brings driving dance tunes, whimsical songs, haunting airs and more direct from a 2013 concert in to your music player!

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Celtic Cafe

Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts

Irish, French and Flemish instrumental Music from the cultural crossroads of Europe. Features Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts. They perform on hammered dulcimer, wooden flute and pennywhistle; classical and steel stringed guitars, mandolin, musette accordion, cittern, tenor banjo and with a wide and diverse range of guests on fiddle, harp, uilleann

Irish, French and Flemish instrumental Music from the cultural crossroads of Europe. Features Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts. They perform on hammered dulcimer, wooden flute and pennywhistle; classical and steel stringed guitars, mandolin, musette accordion, cittern, tenor banjo and with a wide and diverse range of guests on fiddle, harp, uilleann pipes, woodwinds and soprano sax , French horn, bass, piano, and percussion.

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Spirit First Wiesler Edition

Karen Ashbrook

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Spirit First Wiesler Edition

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SpiritFirst.org promotes meditation. As part of its monthly Saturday guided mediations, music is included. This was the music Karen played live on Zoom for the November 12, 2022 meeting. It is a simple home recording with some technical flaws. It features music composed by Dave Wiesler, https://davewiesler.com. 0:00 Linda’s Light 2022, Dave

SpiritFirst.org promotes meditation. As part of its monthly Saturday guided mediations, music is included. This was the music Karen played live on Zoom for the November 12, 2022 meeting. It is a simple home recording with some technical flaws. It features music composed by Dave Wiesler, https://davewiesler.com. 0:00 Linda’s Light ©2022, Dave Wiesler 5:38 Staring Down the Emperor ©2022, Dave Wiesler 10:10 Lovely Hannah, traditional 11:44 The Leaves Are Falling Tonight ©2017, Dave Wiesler

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Spirit First Meditation

Karen Ashbrook

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Spirit First Meditation

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SpiritFirst.org promotes meditation. As part of its monthly Saturday guided mediations, music is included. This was the music I played live on Zoom for the November 13, 2021 meeting. It is a simple home recording.

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CDs

KA/PO in Concert:  Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts CD
  • KA/PO in Concert:  Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts CD
  • KA/PO in Concert:  Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts CD
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Also available as a download! Old & new traditional music from in and around Belgium (and Ireland) on harp guitar, hammered dulcimer, accordion & wooden flute. KA/PO brings driving dance tunes, whimsical songs, haunting airs and more direct from a 2013 concert in to your music player!

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Celtic Cafe: CD-wallet
  • Celtic Cafe: CD-wallet
  • Celtic Cafe: CD-wallet
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Also available as a download! Irish, French and Flemish instrumental Music from the cultural crossroads of Europe. Features Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts. They perform on hammered dulcimer, wooden flute and pennywhistle; classical and steel stringed guitars, mandolin, musette accordion, cittern, tenor banjo and with a wide and diverse range of guests on fiddle, harp, uilleann pipes, woodwinds and soprano sax , French horn, bass, piano, and percussion.

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Spring Will Come: CD–Celebrating 30 years of playing hammered dulcimer
  • Spring Will Come: CD–Celebrating 30 years of playing hammered dulcimer
  • Spring Will Come: CD–Celebrating 30 years of playing hammered dulcimer
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Featuring Belgian, Celtic, French, & Jewish traditional music from a live concert celebrating thirty years of America's premier player of the hammered dulcimer. Hear the excitement and energy as Karen Ashbrook brings together musicians extraordinaire on Celtic harp, vocals, cittern, harp guitar & percussion. Includes Boys of Bedlam and Paul Oorts playing accordion and singing the lusty French buskers' song "Accordéon."

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Hills of Erin: CD
  • Hills of Erin: CD
  • Hills of Erin: CD
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A sweeping sonic travelogue of Ireland featuring Karen Ashbrook on hammered dulcimer, Irish flute and pennywhistle and with special guests: David Scheim on piano, Bobby Read on woodwinds and percussion, Sue Richards on Celtic harp, Connie McKenna on guitar, Carolyn Surrick on viola da gamba and Myron Bretholz on bodhran. Music Includes: Bank of Red Roses, Reaping the Rye, Connaughtman's Rambles, hornpipes, airs, The Osprey by Scottish musician and composer Dougie MacLean, and a prelude by J.S. Bach.

This recording is out of print but these are the last remaining hard copies.

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Celtic Lace: Celtic Lace
  • Celtic Lace: Celtic Lace
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All-instrumental album by Ceoltoiri featuring the harp, hammered dulcimer, fiddle, guitar and concertina. Music from the Celtic lands including Ireland and Scotland. Ceoltoiri weaves a rich and varied tapestry of textures and sounds. Hear Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes and slow airs, a Scottish reel and strathspey, Swedish polskas, Coilsfield House/Jig of Slurs, and Knit the Pocky, a reel from the Bremner Collection (1757). (50:02 minutes). This recording is out of print but there are still a few copies available for purchase.

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Silver Apples of the Moon: Silver Apples of the Moon CD
  • Silver Apples of the Moon: Silver Apples of the Moon CD
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Features Irish singer, Connie McKenna. Like the Irish band, the Chieftains, Ceoltoiri presents an ensemble style that includes driving jigs and reels as well as an exciting mix of traditional and contemporary sounds. Hear the Irish lament Rockin' the Cradle, a Scandinavian polska set, tunes by O'Carolan and a W.B. Yeats song from the poem Song of the Wandering Aengus set to a Scottish air. Pronounced "kul-tory," Ceoltoiri means "musicians" in Irish Gaelic. (54:50 minutes)

Out of print. There are only a few hard copies left.

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Women of Ireland: Women of Ireland
  • Women of Ireland: Women of Ireland
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The mystical legends and lore of Celtic women, with haunting Irish Gaelic songs and instrumentals on Irish flute and whistle, Celtic harp, guitar, hammered dulcimer, uilleann pipes, Irish button accordion, sax, flute, clarinet, fretless bass, piano, and percussion. This CD includes the pure Gaelic singing of award-winning Irish-American vocalist Connie McKenna, two National Celtic harp champions, Sue Richards and Carol Rose Duane, hammered dulcimer and Irish flute player, Karen Ashbrook, and with Celtic superstar on the Irish button accordion Billy McComiskey as well as other guests on uilleann pipes and woodwinds.

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